It's great to draw chart/flow with mermaid or graphviz in MacDown, but there's some annoying issue in mermaid's old version. @abased . I just find @Gowa2017 is working on issue #1126
While poking around during issue #1150 I noticed that the insertion point in the MacDown editor window stops blinking when a menu is pulled down. I don't expect that to happen in a document, so I tried some other apps. One other place I see the insertion point animation freeze is in text input forms, like the To: field in Apple Mail. In contrast, when the insertion point is in the message body, the insertion point keeps blinking when a menu is pulled down. I am curious if this is related to #1150 somehow.
Best combination I've found is to use Atom as the editor, with the packages language-markdown, markdown-writer, and markdown-preview. The parser is excellent, the dialect of markdown is usable, and the viewer is more reliable than the one bundled with MacDown. I'll occasionally check what does not get past the MacDown parser/viewer, and log those as issues.
Current issue is that I currently don’t have a lot of bandwidth to tackle difficult problems, so I would be working more on low-hanging fruits, like reviewing existing pull requests and making new releases. I’m also trying to allow more people to participate in translation of languages that I don’t know.
Also, I had some hidden characters when I copy/pasted stuff that ended up breaking the real time colorization in the Editor pane. Some sort of indication of a parse failure would be helpful to indicate where it is (or the ability in settings to turn on visible special characters)
I use it frequently :-)
Yeah, a few keyboards have that label, but it's traditionally the option key and it can be confusing to call it alt because of the way it doesn't always map to windows/unix keyboards. (My 2017 MBP calls it option.) Regardless, Save As is definitely shift-cmd-S by long-standing usage.
Thanks
ahoy folks. i did a quick search through the sourcecode for transparency features. it seems there's an opacity attribute in the themes. i'm totally new to the editor, but i'm very eager to switch to an editor supporting window transparency - i do a lot of re-drafting, and it is so helpful on small screens to be able to see previous drafts
without investigating the opacity attr further, is this feature implementable in MacDown?
But dialog prompts, the preference panes, and other menu windows are not transparent / opaque. Only the editor windows have the transparency feature. MacOS Terminal and iTerm have these features, and TextMate2 used to have it too.
IMHO, it seems many users consider transparency a cosmetic frill, but I have come to rely on it for the practical reason that laptop screens are small, and being able to "see through" the current editor to a previous draft means I can revise and redraft without having to alternate through screens. I cannot be the only one who sees the practical value of transparency features.
I've tried installing both via the zip download and homebrew
That basically says it can't be opened because the developer can't be verified.
Oh sorry, ignore me.. It's possible in the security settings to tell it to open it
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